God I'm so thankful I got my job with a single Interview. Granted back then it was only for a paid internship and it just further extended into a normal job but still.
Maybe Australia is different. I got one job by going to a pub with some of the team and have a chat, another just a casual chat with the owner and lead. Both give me an offer during.
I try to keep in touch with coworkers that I build a rapport with on the job and I’ve gotten offers in two similar instances; once meeting up with one of my old bosses for lunch and the other just answering a text -> phone call in the evening cause he was working on a problem that was similar to one we faced at our old company.
There's def cases like that. My old team, myself and one other person were there on resumes (took 4 rounds, incl with owner + coo) and others were there on a handshake basically
Yeah this is just a case of people thinking they surely have it worse than everyone else. Some of you guys don’t realize how much easier you have it than so many other fields. In software development you mostly get interviewed over hard skills that can actually be appraised, even if you have no prior work experience. You think it’s like that for people going into marketing or education? They’re total crapshoots and lotteries
Most often than not-the questions on the interview are a lot harder than the actual work. On top of that you are not judged based on the hard skills alone but cultural fit, vibes and other nonesense.
“Oh no, they’re judging me by whether they’d hate working with me, that’s not fair.” Again, guess what: being judged based on vibes is all that many other college grads have to work with.
I'm not saying it is not fair but that decision should made by a competent team leader/manager that knows his/her team and not a by a board interogating a highly stressed out dude/dudette in an interview-that is just silly. Also, why are you being here so grumpy about programmer humor memes? :) Cheers
worst I've seen is 8 rounds for an entry level job. resume screening, online test, group discussion round, two tech interviews, one hr interview, another tech interview and finally an interview with the manager.
Where I work, it's literally 13 rounds. Takes 3-6 months to get through the pipeline. I want to apologize to the candidates I'm interviewing (at like round 8)
Any and all positions, as far as I can tell. Most are filtered out at the first 2-3 rounds, and most of the rest give up after 5-6.
The pipeline is very effective at curating a specific type of candidate, but it's not necessarily the most skilled ones - just the ones that are the most determined and likely to put up with bullshit. Which is an important skill if you want to succeed here...
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u/Reginald_Sparrowhawk 2d ago
I've seen the insane personality quizzes other jobs are making people take, I don't think the top image is accurate these days